Objections to the Azov soldier’s presence were submitted by Canadian Forces personnel to military leaders immediately, but were ignored.

Good for those personnel who objected.

I know next to nothing about these things.

Most honest Scotty take I’ve read. Should be appended to every post.

Putting one downtown between the stadium and the new art gallery is a weird enough choice already, but putting one in a residential area like Mount Pleasant seems crazy.

Chinese-made Teslas are already all over Canada’s streets, so they’re clearly doing this to target Chinese brands and not Chinese manufacturing, but it should be something for all cars, EVs and ICEs, regardless of where their brand is from.

The empire is already here. The US really isn’t the empire. It is the power centre of the empire and it’s the enforcer of the empire, but it’s not the empire. It is one of many states captured by the empire. The empire itself is in the networks of capital and is already supranational. The Black Snake is part of the empire, as is mining, and finance, tech, the arms trade and more. They are all already here. People pit themselves against other nationalities as if it’s those people on the other side of the line who are the enemy, as those people mostly try to scrape by in their own lives. Like racism, nationalism is another divisive ideology that keeps people targeting others like themselves, keeping each other down and willing to sacrifice out of fear, all to the benefit of the real empire.

Yeah, the direction of the US seemed pretty obvious last year and it has just been accelerating since. I don’t like their direction, or that we are so deeply intertwined with them, but the forces supporting integration in energy, tech, minerals, defense etc are all very powerful. It’s not good.

Is that what you think he was elected to do? I don’t recall anyone running on ending CUSMA. It was all about how to manage it and get a good deal. It has always been about how to get the best deal to maintain access by avoiding tarrifs and saving highly-integrated cross-border industry. Every candidate was running on their skills to save CUSMA from the threat of Trump, not getting out CUSMA and getting out of business with the US.

The point of CUSMA negotiations the whole time has been to try to maintain a position that benefits from deep integration with the US. What did people think it was about? Diversification is about hedging, reducing risk, and gaining leverage but the whole point of CUSMA negotiations is just trying to get the most favourable terms possible while trying to stay deeply integrated. Carney touts us having the best trade terms with them all the time. Our energy minister is touting Canada’s role in US energy dominance and pushing the idea of Fortress North America. We are integrating with NSA laws on border security, integrating with the Golden Dome, integrating on critical minerals, we are embracing massive military spending at their request while we won’t say shit about their illegal wars. There’s a disturbing trend towards blind patriotism in a segment of Carney supporters where they have fallen so hard for “elbows up” nationalism and Canadian exceptionalism that they turn anything into 4D chess kool-aid and deceive themselves into not trusting what’s right in front of their noses.

One of the key bits of info here is that it’s to attract foreign direct investment. So, not even to put that stake into the hands of Canadian private capital, which would have its own issues, but to sell it off to foreign interests.

It all makes me feel a bit sick seeing this trend.

A Kodak moment.

I’m all for urban density and reducing new suburban sprawl, but it already exists. Yellowknife isn’t a very representative example.

E-bikes etc are great, but they’re no replacement for cars, both because of the weather and because of cities designed around commuting by car for decades. We need to electrify the vehicles people use and that infrastructure has been built for.

I seem to remember the speed limit changing once you get under the bridge. Not to marina-slow kind of speed, but I thought it dropped there. You tend not to see people going through there at speed anyway and it’s definitely a point where you need to be careful of wildlife and other things in the water. I don’t think there was any intent in hitting the whale, but reckless to be ripping through that area at that speed repeatedly.

He’s definitely a shill, but based on when, where and what he posts I would guess he’s EU-based rather than American. Certainly comes across as a foreign influence sockpuppet though.

There is even a petition to parliament asking for action on the Alberta Prosperity Project. Why is this petition even necessary after we’ve known about Rath meeting with Trump administration officials to coordinate the breaking up of confederation for ages?

Had never heard most of these songs before this contest. Some really great ones in there. Thanks for organizing this.

This is the Canadian way. Nice rules on paper, but terrible enforcement. I would welcome a change that brings in enforcement that actually works to maintain the sanctity of nice-sounding regulations, but I’ll believe it when I see it. The system has welcomed just the type of activity you describe for a long, long time. It’s in the DNA of the system, and it won’t change overnight.

What Canadian is asking for this? Anybody? Wow… Gross.

It seems like a good tool to have in doctor or other healthcare professional’s toolbox for delivering complex care, as long as complex care is provided and it’s not treated as a simple solution to a complex problem. Canada certainly has healthcare professionals with the skills and knowledge to provide complex care. As long as we have provincial systems that support and enable them to provide that care, and providers who choose that path, having this as a generic drug seems like a win to me.

That’s probably fair when talking about the electorate broadly, but also leaves out the powerful special interests contributing to shaping and manipulating the movement, and which have much more direct and influential access to provincial government than your average Jane or Joe. Those interests, and the stakeholders to which they’re most responsive, need to be included as part of any discussion of how this movement is developing.